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                         XingSound MPEG Audio Player
                           Copyright (c) 1990-1993
                         Xing Technology Corporation
                           1540 West Branch Street
                           Arroyo Grande, CA 93420

                      Technical Support:  805-473-7431
                      Fax:                805/473-0147
                      BBS:                805/473-2680
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The file MPGAUDIO.EXE contains Xing Technology, Inc.'s XingSound MPEG
Audio Player for IBM 386/486 PC compatibles. This entire self-extracting
(PKZIP 2.04g) archive may be freely distributed under the following
conditions:
1 You may distribute copies of the entire original archive file as
  archived by Xing Technology with its authorized authentication code.
2 You may change the file extension to .ZIP or .EXE as desired.

This README file introduces Xing Technology and its products and gives
instructions for:
- installing the XingSound MPEG Audio Player;
- starting the XingSound MPEG Audio Player.

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INTRODUCING XING TECHNOLOGY

Xing Technology Corporation is an active participant in the international
committee that established and defined the JPEG and MPEG standards. Xing
develops, licenses, and applies data compression technology to multimedia
communications solutions. The company's products enable OEMs, developers
and end-users to integrate words, sound, still and moving pictures into
cost-effective PC-based business, education, and training tools.

Xing Technology products include:
- Xingit! - real-time MPEG video capture board with encoding software,
  video and sound editors, and full-featured player;
- Picture Prowler - a fast JPEG imagebase manager for Windows;
- VTCompress - DOS and Windows application and libraries for
  coding/decoding and viewing JPEGs;
- XingSound - real-time MPEG audio recorder, software encoder,
  and audio file player for Windows.

Contact Xing or your Xing reseller for more information about these
products.

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INSTALLING THE XINGSOUND MPEG AUDIO PLAYER

The MPGAUDIO.EXE file is a self extracting ZIP file that contains
the XingSound MPEG Audio Player. To install the XingSound player:
1 Create a new directory on your hard drive and copy into it
  the MPGAUDIO.EXE file.
2 Run the MPGAUDIO.EXE program from a DOS command line or from within
  Windows:
  - to run it from a DOS command line, change to the directory that
    contains the MPGAUDIO.EXE program and type "MPGAUDIO";
  - to run it from within Windows, choose "Run" from the Program Manager's
    "File" menu; the "Run" dialog appears; enter in the "Command Line" field
    the full pathname of the MPGAUDIO.EXE program and click the "OK" button.
  When the MPGAUDIO.EXE program is finished, the installation directory
  should contain the following files:
    XING_PLY.EXE      XingSound MPEG Audio Player program for Windows
    MSND_MP2.DLL      MPEG Sound Driver
    MSND_WAV.DLL      WAV Sound Driver
    MAUD.LST          Configuration file for the XingSound MPEG Audio Player
    XINGSND.HLP       Windows Help file - Please Use it!
    GREETING.MP2      A sample MPEG audio file
    README.TXT        The file you are reading!

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STARTING THE XINGSOUND MPEG AUDIO PLAYER

The XingSound MPEG Audio Player includes a Windows program "XING_PLY.EXE".
As with any Windows program, you can start the XING_PLY.EXE program in a
number of ways, e.g, from the File Manager or with the "Run" command in
the Program Manager's "File" menu. It is easiest to create a new Program
Manager item for the XING_PLY.EXE program:
1 Start Windows and open the Program Manager window;
2 Choose "New" from the Program Manager's "File" menu; the "New Program
  Object" window appears;
3 Select the "Program Item" radio button and click the "OK" button; the
  "Program Item Properties" window appears;
4 Enter "XingSound MPEG Audio Player" in the "Description" field, enter the
  full pathname of the XING_PLY.EXE program in the "Command Line" field,
  enter the pathname of the directory that contains the XING_PLY.EXE
  program in the "Working Directory" field, and click the OK button;
  A new program item "XingSound MPEG Audio Player" appears.
5 Double-click the "XingSound MPEG Audio Player" icon to start the program.
  The XingSound MPEG Audio Player appears.
You can now use the XingSound MPEG Audio Player as described in the
program's on-line help.

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IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING PLAYBACK QUALITY

This freely-distributable version of the XingSound MPEG Audio Player
uses a lower-precision, software-only MPEG decoder; i.e., MPEG data is
decoded by the XingSound software and sent to your PC's audio board via
your Windows audio driver. This process achieves only lower-quality,
monaural audio playback.

To achieve high-quality, stereo playback, the retail version of XingSound 
uses a DSP decoder; i.e., MPEG data is sent directly to a compatible
audio board (i.e., an audio board equipped with an Analog Device's 2115
DSP chip) where the DSP chip decodes the MPEG data.

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